When I was young, these were also basically the only two JRPGs that existed that I could get.
Now, there are countless thousands, and these are just two names amongst many. And FF really feels like they are just phoning it in recently for me personally.
Tainted Grail is amazing if anyone needs something with a good Elder Scrolls kind of game in a setting that's a mix of Arthurian legend and Lovecraftian horror.
I always liked to think of the Borg as being almost more like an emergent property of a certain level and type of organic/inorganic interfacing.
So it's not that one species was the Borg, all are in potentia. And every time a species commits the same error or reaches the correct level of "perfection", they find themselves in a universe where they were already existent.
Like a small hive self-creates, opens its mental ears and is already subsumed into the greater Borg whose mind it finds.
I like that it adds almost a whole new level of arrogance to their statement, "Resistance is futile." They believe it not only because they are about to physically assimilate you, but because every advance you make brings you potentially closer to being Borg through your own missteps.
And then they point to all the scientific and technological advances of the last several hundred years and lay claim to them because the economic system existed at the same time as the advances.
Feudalism (or whatever economic system can be argued to be existent at the time) didn't make the telescope, Galileo did with technology.
I hate him, too, but I'm tired of seeing this same old bullshit misunderstanding. And you can see no one wants to take ten minutes to learn we've been lied to our entire lives about how the monetary system works. It's so infuriating.
Open source fuels so much software division and diversity this claim of it hurting competition is laughable.